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Globalization
and Sustainable Development Program
New Publications from Globalization Researchers:
Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007, by Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, GDAE-IATP Policy Report, January 2012.
Mission Creep: International Investment Agreements and Sovereign Debt Restructuring," by Kevin P. Gallagher, Investment Treaty News, January 12, 2012.
Visit the Globalization Research Library.
Agricultural Policies and the Global Food Crisis
 Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007, by Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, GDAE-IATP Policy Report, January 2012. See an op-ed by the authors on the Triple Crisis Blog, "Resolving the Food Crisis: Global leaders fail to make crucial reforms," and watch an interview with the authors by the Real News Network: Bio-fuels, Speculation, Land Grabs = Food Crisis.
Spotlight G20: More fodder for the food price debates: ethanol, speculation drove prices, by Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, October 19, 2011.
 Food Security off the Table: Timothy A. Wise was interviewed by the Real News Network on the failure of the WTO and G20 to address food security, prevent food price bubbles, and how trade policies are weakening food production in developing countries. Watch the full interview here. (December 2011)
G20 ignores food security. GDAE's Timothy A. Wise and Triple Crisis blogger Jennifer Clapp were interviewed by the Real News Network on why food security and commodity market speculation have recently fallen off the G20's Cannes Summit agenda. This interview is part of the Triple Crisis Blog's 2011 Spotlight G20 series. (October 2011)
The True Cost of Cheap Food: The globalisation of the food market has made food cheap, but who is benefiting? by Timothy A. Wise, Resurgence, Issue 259, March/April 2010. Also available in Spanish.
Read more on GDAE's work on Food and Agriculture.
Foreign Investment & Capital
Controls
Mission Creep: International Investment Agreements and Sovereign
Debt Restructuring," by Kevin P. Gallagher, Investment Treaty News, January 12, 2012.
 The Myth of Financial Protectionism: The New (and old) Economics of Capital Controls by Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper, January 2012.
Also read an op-ed by Gallagher based on this paper, published in the Financial Times, Capital controls are not beggar thy neighbour. Watch a video summary of this report on Global Policy TV.
Beyond the G20: Mitigating the Global Imbalances in the Absence of Global Coordination, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Global Policy Journal, November 2011.
The G20's Helpful Silence on Capital Controls, by Jose Antonio Ocampo, Stephany Griffith-Jones, and Kevin P. Gallagher, Project Syndicate, October 2011.
Will the G20 Control Hot Money? Kevin P. Gallagher and Triple Crisis blogger Ilene Grabel were interviewed by the Real News Network on the G20 and capital controls. This interview is part of the Triple Crisis Blog's 2011 Spotlight G20 series. (October 2011)
The New Vulture Culture: Sovereign Debt Restructuring and Trade and Investment Treaties, by Kevin P. Gallagher, IDEAs Working Paper, July 2011.
Read more about GDAE’s work on Capital Flows and Foreign Investment.
Mining and Sustainable Development
Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala: Economic Benefits and Environment Risks of the Marlin Mine, by Lyuba Zarsky and Leonardo Stanley, September 2011. In this report, the authors assess the costs and benefits of the Marlin Mine in the western Highlands of Guatemala, owned and operated by the Canadian corporation Goldcorp. This report is a product of the GDAE-sponsored Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas. Researchers found that the economic benefits, to Guatemala and to the affected communities, are short-term and small, particularly given the company's large profits due to high gold prices. And the environmental risks are long-term and potentially very large.
Read an op-ed of the report by co-author Lyuba Zarsky on the Triple Crisis Blog, "Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala."
Is Canada's Goldcorp Good for Guatemala? Lyuba Zarsky was intereviewed by the Real News Network on the lack of economic benefits of the Marlin Mine for the local communities in Guatemala. Watch Part I and Part II of the interview. Also see an video on the report produced by Mining Watch Canada.
Read more about the Marlin Mine report and Working Group Projects.
China & Latin America
 The Dragon in the Room:
China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski
Stanford University Press (Order Information)
China Discovers Latin America, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Berkeley Review, University of California, Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies, Fall/Winter 2011.
"Taking the China Challenge: China and the Future of Latin American Economic Development", by Kevin P. Gallagher, Latin American Trade Network, Serie Brief No. 58, November 2010.
Learn more about GDAE's work on China and Latin America.
Reforming US Trade Policies
Trading Away Stability and Growth: United States Trade Agreements in Latin America, by Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper No. 266, September 2011.
U.S. Trade Policy: Still Waiting for a "21st Century Trade Agreement," by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, LATN Brief, August 2011.
 The Future of North American Trade Policy: Lessons from NAFTA
Kevin P. Gallagher, Enrique Dussel Peters and Timothy A. Wise present a set of concrete recommendations from a BU Task Force of experts on reforms to NAFTA and the template for U.S. trade agreements.
This report is now available in Spanish.
Agricultural Dumping Under NAFTA - In this report, released by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Timothy A. Wise estimates the costs to Mexican producers of U.S. agricultural dumping at $12.8 billion.
Read more about GDAE's work in Reforming US Trade Policies.
US Demands May Kill WTO Agreement: GDAE's Timothy A Wise gave an interview to The Real News Network on the Doha trade talks, and how US demands on developing countries are bringing the negotiations to a standstill. Read his recent Triple Crisis Blog post, Doha Goes on Life Support.
Read more about GDAE's work on the WTO and Global Trade.
Other Recent Publications from Globalization Researchers
Latin America 2060: Securing Economic Development for the Longer-Range Future, by Ann Helwege, Latin America 2060: Consolidation or Crisis?, Pardee Center Task Force Report, September 2011.
The Political Contradictions of Incremental Innovation: Lessons from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination in Brazil, by Kenneth C. Shadlen. Politics and Society, June 2011.
Visit the Publications Library for a complete list of research areas and publications.
The Triple Crisis Blog
The Triple Crisis Blog provides expert opinion and analysis on the global crises in finance, development and environment. GDAE and partners launched the Triple Crisis Blog in February of 2010. Globalization Researchers Kevin P. Gallagher, Timothy A. Wise, and Lyuba Zarsky are all regular contributors to the Triple Crisis Blog. Read the most recent posts:
Kevin Gallagher, Mission Creep: International Investment Agreements and Sovereign debt Restructuring
Timothy A. Wise, Resolving the Food Crisis: Global leaders fail to make crucial reforms.
Lyuba Zarsky, Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala.
Senior GDAE Researcher Kevin P. Gallagher writes regularly for The Guardian the Financial Times, and Politico .
The IMF must heed G20 decisions, November 29, 2011 - The G20 agreed that developing countries are free to use capital controls against speculators. Now the IMF should respect that.
The eurozone debt crisis and the G20, November 1, 2011- The eurozone crisis and risk of a Greek default make action by the G20 to work out restructuring plans vital. Just ask Argentina.
Read more columns and commentaries from GDAE researchers.
The Global Development and Environment Institute’s Globalization and Sustainable Development Program examines the economic, social and environmental impacts of economic integration in developing countries, with a particular emphasis on the WTO and NAFTA's lessons for trade and development policy. The goal of the program is to identify policies and international agreements that foster sustainable development.
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